Patience nodded, his back quivering. "I'm not afraid of fire, oh no, I love fire. Fire is freind." Arachne stood looking at the fog, surrounded by spiders, deep in her thoughts. She was shivering a little bit, staring off into space. Patience looked at her, shaking his head. "Oh dear, she is having what is called a spider fit. It causes her to remember horrible things and be motionless for hours, much like a poison. If she doesn't wake up right now she may never live again and help you! And..." He shivered a little bit. "You remember what I was talking about earlier?" He was talking about engagement and things, but tried to make it sound as if he were talking about something else. "Well, its the only way to cure her if she doesn't wake up. Oh no."

Patience stumbled off Volkenagrim's shoulder, tucking in his legs. "It won't work. Only a spider can do it." This was shone to be true, as Arachne still stood there. Spiders swarmed around her legs, and some even crawled over Volkenagrim. The curse of Spider's Ruins began to take effect, as Volkenagrim began shriveling up into a spider.

Patience, Rabble, and many of the other spiders rolled off unharmed. They made chittering sounds that were like maybe a squirrel making noise through a metal pipe. Patience was now not so patient. "Is that all you got? Why don't you come over and do something effective like stepping on us, you big old fire ant!" The spiders kept crawling over Maleck, biting at him. Arachne stood there for a moment,  then collapsed completely. After a minute she stood up and glared at Maleck. She drew both her knives and waited for a good time to run in and strike. "This is why I don't trust strangers, Rabble." Then she dropped her knives, both of them becoming snakes. The snakes slithered towards Maleck. She ran into a tent and grabbed a bow and arrow. She thought for a moment. She aimed the arrow for Maleck's head, and released the arrow. As soon as it hit Maleck, a large blast of blood red water engulfed him. Arachne stood back and waited.

Arachne pulled her hood over her head, instantly becoming invisible. She heard the fight going on around Lydia. She sprinted over, trying to keep her hood on. She aimed her bow at the creatures. "You two leave the duchess alone or I banish the both of you so far into the darkness you will never get out again." She pulled the string back a little farther, as a threat. "Well?" She nudged her head back to get her hair out of her eye.

Patience nodded and skittered to Arachne. Arachne was halfway to Volkenagrim, but stopped and raised Patience in her hand. "Yes?" Patience stared up at her with his eight beady eyes. "Thats not Maleck, oh no. Thats Volkenagrim in there. He needs help to get out of there. Come along!" He lowered himself down on a spindle of silk and quickly crawled ahead of her. On the way Arachne was running things over through her mind like a horse on steroids. As soon as she saw Volkenagrim, she stood behind him. She dropped the bow and concentrated. Arachne's one regular eye was glowing a bright yellow. Thousands of white wisps floated over, under, around, and through Maleck. She bent down and dug up the root of a dead flower, then rubbed it between her hands. It became a purple dust which completed the process and turned Volkenagrim back into his regular form. After depositing so much power, Arachne collapsed, and her only seeing eye faded to blind.

Patience stared into Volkenagrim's closed eyes, chittering. "You are welcome... Where are you going?" He stepped circles around the body, making clicking sounds. "You know that if you go then things will be unbalanced. People will die, for no reason at all. Look at Arachne for an example." He tilted his head towards Arachne, who was laying on the ground as if broken. "So many uncontrollable things... Unreasonable too. Because your curse has been lifted, doesn't mean you should give up on normal life..." Patience didn't know where he was going, but he did know what he was talking about. Patience had concidered his freindship with Volkenagrim a considerably long-lasting one. He wasn't going to be alone that soon. He stood there looking at the sky, as if he weren't going to take no for an answer.

Patience snickered when the man tripped, but then prepared himself for half of Volkenagrim's soul. "Anything for you." Arachne weakly got up, but taking a bit of time. She blinked, thinking her eyes were still closed. Spiders melted from her legs, crawling everywhere then returned as sight. She bent down and lifted Rabble up, whispering to him. "I think I'm blind again, mind donating poison?" She kept her voice so low that only Rabble could hear, then raised a hand up to him. Rabble bit his fangs into her hand, depositing venom. Instantly, vision in her left eye returned as normal. She looked around. She looked at the blood covered figure. "Patience, have I missed something..?"

Patience immediately obeyed and bit into Volkenagrim's throat. He suddenly tucked in his legs and rolled off. He stood up, shaking off dirt. He backed up, bumping against Arachne. Arachne bent down and picked him up, stroking him. "Your mother is such a barley sack." Both Patience and Arachne said this at the same time, but not exactly noticing. Arachne stared down at the dead body, a plain look on her face. By plain, the regular ex
pression on her face was both confused and angered. She then looked down at Patience, tilting her head a little. "I still don't understand why you entered Spider's Ruins... As a human you weren't so constipated." Patience snorted, as if he didn't care about the subject.

Arachne listened intently, watching Volkenagrim. "I see you've been having many different forms... And lives..." She folded her arms, tilting her head a bit. Rabble and Patience were perched among her shoulders. "I recall there were more of you, and I also recall that you left them on that boat when it burnt to ashes..." She looked in the direction of the lake, spotting Lydia and Jabari. She looked back at Volkenagrim, a puzzled look on her face.

Arachne flinched and stepped backward. Patience snorted. "We knew that." Arachne reached over and flicked him lightly. "Spider brain... He was smarter as a human..." She glared up at Diclino. "Another odd creature, yet not one that is confusing as the thing down there." She tilted her head towards Volkenagrim. "You seem to wish to be human. The spiders and I can help you with that." She glared at Diclino, the scar running over her eye making a threatening look.